For the last day of the Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp, we had a visit from Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier, two cartoonists who not only collaborate on projects together but are also married! Raina is the author of the upcoming graphic novel Smile, which comes out in February 2010. Both Raina and Dave, however, have been artists and collaborators for many different cartoons and graphic novels, and shared their experiences and artistic expertise with us today.
Raina and Dave talk about making comics
Dave and Raina explained that they both have artistic backgrounds, as Dave majored in cartooning in college, and Raina studied illustration. Among the things they share in common is, of course, the love for comics, not to mention their talent for drawing! Dave and Raina told us that they first started making graphic novels after going to comic conventions and asking their favorite artists and authors questions about making books. Since then, they’ve worked with many different artists, as well as each other, to create a range of graphic novels, like X-Men: Misfits, the Flight anthology, and Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery.
